Quotes About Industry

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

It's so important that we take auditions less seriously, take your work seriously, but take the industry a whole lot less seriously because it is so fickle.

Television can be a very fickle place.

I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.

It's really an honor when you're creating a fictional show that changes people's lives. That's what I love about this industry. There's always potential to do that to influence people's lives. I always felt a sense of responsibility to try to make that a positive experience.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

I don't think anyone can make it in Bollywood without talent and hard work and it applies to all fields.

All competitors are fierce competitors; Vodafone is the world's second largest company. We fight it each day. Idea Cellular is big and successful, too. Competition is competition; we are used to it.

The success of 'The Fighter' made it a lot easier to get 'Broken City' green-lit. And the buzz about 'The Fighter' also made it a lot easier to get 'Contraband' green-lit.

For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.

I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.

I don't believe in awards, and I think only film fare awards are faring.

Before, I was writing a script to make a movie. At a certain point, I became A Writer in Film and Television. So I got TV deals to write stuff, film deals to write stuff. But it's dangerous. I got into the WGA, and I became kind of, you know, a slave! They just pay you to write a script, and it's hard to make the movies.

I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.

The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.

I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

I like considering myself as someone in the film business.

Four or five years ago I decided to stop cursing the darkness - I had been complaining about movies and their content for years - and instead to do something about it by getting into the film business.

In this age of consumerism film criticism all over the world - in America first but also in Europe - has become something that caters for the movie industry instead of being a counterbalance.

More meaningful cinema is being made, and that is the reason why you see a rejuvenated Malayalam film industry. But more films aimed at youth are needed.

The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.